I saw an interview last night on Channel 10 in Australia regarding this, the plan is to spend around $1bn USD for the first attempt to extract a few minerals and return to earth with this payload.Â The total value of thisÂ cosmic haulÂ if sold on the market would be roughlyÂ $3k USD. Understand that it is in development etc… and the amount will obvioulsy increase over time but this all sounds a bit too much like the prequel to Avatar.

MrV

Any mineral/liquid/gas cargo they can mine would potentially be more much more valuable in Low Earth Orbit, for the reason that you wouldn’t need to expend as much energy getting it there. Even getting water to LEO is expensive.